Pompeo's Cuban War

It's Gutlessness Is Unconscionable!!
{UPDATED: Sunday, June 23, 2019}

    The photo above was taken Thursday -- June 20, 2019 -- by Saul Loeb for the AFP News Agency. I believe every democracy-loving American should study and try to comprehend the News Conference conducted by the USA's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. There are a FEW PROBLEMS for the USA in the Middle East and elsewhere but Pompeo Thursday concentrated on fomenting his long-desired WAR AGAINST CUBA. After imposing Helms-Burton Title 3 sanctions designed to starve Cubans on the island once and for all, Pompeo today slapped Cuba on the USA's punitive blacklist of nations that engage in HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Incredibly, Pompeo added one other nation -- dear friend Saudi Arabia -- to that list...even while the USA sells billions of dollars in ultra-modern military weapons to the aggressive Saudis. The 55-year-old Mike Pompeo has LONG desired to starve-punish-eviscerate Cubans on the island to appease radical Cubans in Little Havana/Miami...and that includes Pompeo's past roles as a Republican anti-Cuban war-monger when he was...CIA Director, in the U. S. Congress from 2011 till 2017, and now as Trump's omnipotent Secretary of State.

     Americans who do not take time to study the montage shown above are, I believe, Americans who don't care one iota about their Democracy. In the middle above is Mike Pompeo and he is flanked by four other extremely obsessed anti-Cuban war-mongers who have been anointed by President Trump into ultra-powerful positions to make war against several smaller nations -- especially against Cuba as directed by Little Havana's Marco Rubio.

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo loves Chairman Kim because North Korea has nuclear weapons. But picking on little weak nations like Cuba is Pompeo's cup of tea.

     For the United States of America to allow self-serving Cuban-obsessed lightweights like Marco Rubio and Mike Pompeo to dictate Cuban policies that hurt the vast majority of Cubans, Cuban-Americans, and Americans is a GROSS INSULT to Democracy. Yet, a cowardly generation of Americans meekly allow it to happen...and do so without even attempting to judge Mike Pompeo's Marco Rubio-directed News Conference today. It's truly amazing; INCREDIBLY SAD!!

     Recently the 30 Major League Baseball teams in the United States signed an agreement with Cuba's Baseball Association in a totally decent and herculean effort to reduce gross HUMAN TRAFFICKING of Cuba's wealth of baseball talent coming to the U. S. to play baseball. But the Little Havana lightweight Marco Rubio dictated that the Trump administration block the sane MLB-Cuba agreement. After that, of course, the HUMAN TRAFFICKERS who already loved Rubio loved him more than ever.

     An America that allows Marco Rubio to dictate President Trump's genocidal Cuban policies is an America that favors Human Traffickers over DEMOCRACY while, as happened today, punishing Cuba for being a HUMAN TRAFFICKER. Incredible...and sad!!

A decent and brave American President.

But then came Trump.

Then came genocidal dangers.

Little Havana got its war-monger.

LITTLE HAVANA's WAR ON HAVANA.

Democracy? "What's democracy?"

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Russia-US Venezuelan Faceoff

 And Will Either Risk War?

     The Russian Ambassador to the United States, Vladimir Zaemski, has just had some interesting things to say about the U.S.-Russia standoff in Venezuela. His words are very interesting because many presumed the USA's desired regime-change in Venezuela -- from the troubled but Russia-friendly Maduro to the ambitious U.S.-friendly Guaido -- would have taken place as far back as January when the Trump administration insisted Guaido was/is Venezuela's rightful President. Now the U. S. claims it hasn't happened because POOR LITTLE CUBA is keeping Maduro afloat. Of course, it's the Big Boy, meaning Russia, that has stalled Trump's and Miami's designs on oil-rich but destitute and deeply U.S.-sanctioned Venezuela. So, here is what Vladimir Zaemski said to the U. S. and the world about Russia's current Venezuelan position:

                "The U. S. is lying when it says Russia has a new military contract with Venezuela. Our only military-technical deal with Venezuela was in 2001 with Hugo Chavez, but it is still valid. Saying such things, and saying tiny Cuba is the big military power keeping Maduro in office is stupid. It's a pretext in Washington to create a military situation. It bespeaks of John Bolton, the world's most dangerous war idiot and...what's his title, National Security Adviser? Well, our National Security adviser Franz klinsevich calls Bolton a lying conspiracy freak, and so do a lot of Americans in Washington, I see. And I call Bolton Mr. Trump's accident waiting to happen in Latin America...and that's a spot America doesn't need a war...uh, I mean a accident."

      Yes, while the U. S. has the world's strongest overall military, Russia can match the U. S. {some say exceed} the U. S. when it comes to nuclear power. Assuming Americans are stupid and sufficiently proselytized, Trump claims little Cuba is the POWER keeping Maduro afloat in Venezuela but, in reality, of course, it's Russia.

    Don't be fooled by Trump Tweets about Russia removing "most of their people from Venezuela." Russia still has enough "people" in Venezuela to keep Trump from turning his war-mongers like Bolton and Abrams on Venezuela, at least at the moment.

     But easily the stupidest and most dangerous thing Trump has done during the first 2.5 years of his presidency was anointing Little Havana lightweight Marco Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator in an obvious trade-off for Rubio supposedly being able to deliver Florida's massive haul of 29 electoral votes that are considered vital to Trump's 2020 reelection. Rubio's entire economic and political career has been based on dancing to every tune sung by the Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists who rule his hometown of Little Havana in Miami. Rubio, as indicated by the graphic above, views the regime-change in Venezuela as the prelude to the regime-change in Cuba that the Little Havana extremists have violently championed since January of 1959.

     Months ago, as shown above, Rubio was so convinced that his regime-change in Venezuela was so imminent...just hours away...that he went to the Venezuelan-Colombian border to celebrate. But photos like this reminded the world that a Rubio in charge of America's modern Caribbean and Latin American imperialism might herald a return of vicious U.S.-backed dictators from the historical past such as...Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoso in Nicaragua, Pinochet in Chile, ETC., ETC., ECT.

     Since January, the U. S. has had enough major allies, including Latin American superpower Brazil as well as well-armed Colombia and the 28-nation European Union, to bring about the USA's desired regime-change in Venezuela. But there has been one huge problem: The people the Trump administration STUPIDLY put in charge of regime-changes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua were only extremely biased and well-known WAR-MONGERS. The Little Havana-dictated and Cuba-obsessed Rubio was Trump's biggest mistake but study the montage below and you will understand why supposedly easy 2019 regime-changes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua are not all that EASY.

     In the middle above is Juan Guaido and he is shown flanked by John Bolton and Elliott Abrams. Guido is Miami's and Trump's choice as the President of Venezuela. Bolton and Abrams have well-known reputations as the greatest war-mongers in America with Bolton, Trump's National Security Adviser, and Abrams, Trump's Envoy to Venezuela, both famed for advocating military operations against smaller nations such as Cuba and now Venezuela. When Trump ignorantly put Bolton and Abrams in charge of regime-changes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, snags were sure to follow because there is no official in the Caribbean or Latin America unaware of the reputations Bolton and Abrams have earned. Even moderately respected Republican diplomats that Trump could have named would have skirted America's reputation for past fierce regime-changes from 1953 deep into the 1970s, with 1973's coup that killed popular democratically elected President Salvador Allende in Chile to install the U.S.-friendly but infamously murderous dictator General Pinchot for 17 bloody years still being most vividly remembered throughout all of Latin America although Americans to this day are not supposed to GOOGLE such sordid details. But since then, opposition leaders in Latin America, like Juan Guaido now in Venezuela, hang on the phone to Miami and Washington supporters trying to solicit money and military might from the USA to, if necessary, install them the way Pinochet was installed in Chile.

       Go back to the top of this post and re-read what Russia's Ambassador to the United States, Vladimir Zaemski, had to say this week about Trump's and America's National Security Adviser John Bolton. If Americans didn't cringe when Trump resurrected a plethora of anti-Cuban war-mongers from the old Bush dynasty like Bolton, Abrams, Reich, Claver-Carone, etc., etc., rest assured that all of the USA's friends and all of the USA's enemies DID CRINGE.

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Florida Extends Batista Dictatorship

From 1952 Till 2019!!

{With Only A Slight 1959 Pause}

     The Havana-based Gente de Zona band -- consisting of Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom -- is one of the best, most honored, and most popular musical acts in the Western Hemisphere. They were signed up to perform on July 4th in Hialeah, Florida, and most Cuban-Americans in the area were anxious to see them. But a handful of generational exiles from 1959's ousted Batista dictatorship in Cuba continue to dictate Florida's politics and Florida's economy. Thus, the mayor of Hialeah this week -- on June 17th, 2019 -- canceled the appearance of Gente de Zona.

      Yes, the Gente de Zona duo {Randy Malcom and Alexander Delgado} are super-talented musicians and they are nice guys. But a handful of Batistiano-types in Florida in 2019 are not embarrassed by resembling the Batista dictatorship that ruled Cuba from 1952 till 1959 when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by booting the Batista-Mafia rulers off the island, where their quick resurrection in South Florida reshaped America by proving to be an extension of the Batista dictatorship on U. S. soil. The victims, not to mention the U. S. democracy itself, are endless...with Randy Malcom and Alexander Delgado merely the latest. But saddest of all from the overall standpoint is the fact that the vast majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans, through three generations now, have been reduced to meekly accepting such insults to democracy. "Uh, ye...yes, I a...agree. If, uh...Randy and Alexander sti...still...li...live in Cuba...they wo...would...be...be a gr...great th...threat to...to A...America...if they pe...performed in Fl...Florida...on Ju...July 4th. We...uh, a...agree wi...with you...Ma...Mayor, sir."

In 1959 Fidel chased the Batistianos.....

all the way to Miami!!!

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Bolton's Cuban War

A Step Closer This Week!!

     It should have come as no surprise, almost as soon as he INCREDIBLY was named President Trump's National Security Adviser, that John Bolton rushed to Little Havana in Miami, stood before a 1962 BAY OF PIGS ATTACK BANNER, and declared war on Cuba as well as Cuba's two main Latin American allies, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Bolton is easily the most vehement war-monger the U. S. has seen in decades and his #1 target, it seems, has always been Cuba. During the George W. Bush presidency, Bolton concocted wild schemes trying to persuade Bush to execute a regime-change in Cuba, which even Bush resisted militarily. But PRESIDENT TRUMP presented extreme anti-Cuban war-mongers like Bolton their best chance to recapture Cuba for this latest generation of Cuban-exile extremists in Miami. Bolton actually thought that would have occurred months ago when it looked like the Miami-stalwarts had gotten their regime-change in deeply troubled Venezuela, Bolton's preclude to his prime target -- CUBA. In recent weeks, with the activation of Helms-Burton Title 3, the Miami strategy is to starve Cubans on the island to soften up the parameters for the regime-change. The Venezuelan economic collapse has essentially curtailed its vital oil shipments to Cuba already but Bolton wants to reduce it to zero. He told the Washington Free Beacon yesterday {June 17, 2019}, "We plan to do more to prevent the transport of oil from Venezuela to Cuba." That seems to push Bolton, and thus the USA, closer to military action to get his regime-change in Cuba.

     More and more, using its unmatched economic and military influence, Trump's USA has lined up numerous regional nations to help, or at least not hinder, its planned regime-change in Cuba. From a military standpoint, regional powers Brazil and Colombia have emerged as the prime U. S. allies against little Cuba. The photo above shows U. S. warships off the northern coast of Colombia, which borders Venezuela. The Colombia embassy has announced what it calls an "Association of the South Command Station" that apparently is a military alliance with the U. S. that threatens Venezuela...and Cuba. The Venezuelans and Cubans now meshing in Miami are in concert regarding Venezuela's vast oil reserves and in goading famed war-monger John Bolton into executing his three promised regime -changes -- Venezuela first, Cuba second, and Nicaragua third.

    It is for certain that famed war-monger John Bolton keeps his bespectacled eyes on his boss, President Trump, to make sure he still has clearance to finish-off his regime-change in Cuba. If that were not so, surely the comment Bolton made this week -- June 17-2019 -- to the Washington Free Beacon would have not been so explicit about shutting off Venezuela's remaining oil shipments to Cuba.

     This photo early in his first term revealed quickly that Trump believes his 2016 election was made possible by Little Havana's deliverance of Florida's massive haul of electoral votes...and further, Trump believes his 2020 re-election pivots on turning the USA's Cuban policies 100% over to only the most extremist Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana. This photo shows President Trump quickly in 2017 rushing to Miami and signing documents that made those assurances to the Counter Revolutionary extremists led by the three men directly behind Trump in this photo -- 3 fiercely anti-Cuban extremists Mario Diaz-Balart, Rick Scott, and Marco Rubio. A U.  S. democracy that allows three men of that stripe to dictate Cuban policies should, perhaps, also stoop to allowing them to dictate the rest of America's policies.

    Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says, "An American government that gives free reins to a John Bolton to make his long-desired wars against smaller nations may be more of a danger to the United States itself than to small nations like Cuba. But, of course, well have to wait and see, won't we?"

    While Americans since 1959 have been incessantly programmed and propagandized to believe every narrative out of Little Havana concerning Cuba, perhaps it is time to heed those words Bruno Rodriguez said this week about John Bolton and The Bolton Doctrine, which calls for the U. S. to use its economic and military might to make every small nation, starting with CUBA, to submit to its will. And so, as a democracy-loving American, permit me to repeat Bruno Rodriguez's words:

                     "An American government that gives free reins to a John Bolton to make his long-desired war against smaller nations may be more dangerous to the United States itself than to small nations like Cuba. But, of course, we'll have to wait and see, won't we?"

         I reduced the size of that quotation because I'm not sure, even as sane at it appears, that it is healthy for democracy-lovers in the USA to depart from Little Havana's Cuban narratives. Yes, the United States of America -- The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave -- has been and continues to be drastically changed by...the pretext for the 1898 Spanish-American War; the 1903 theft of Guantanamo Bay from Cuba; the siccing of the Mafia on Cuba in 1952 during the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rule; the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution that chased the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders to their new capital of Little Havana in Miami; the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba that failed to recapture the island but humiliated the attackers; the 1962 economic blockade of Cuba that exists to this day in June of 2019 to starve and deprive Cubans on the island; the 1976 car-bombing of Emilio Milian in Miami after the bravest Cuban-American journalist criticized vicious terrorists acts against Cubans such as the bombing in 1976 of the civilian Cubana Flight 455 that killed all 73 on board; the 1980's anointment of vicious Havana-born Little Havana Cuban extremist Jorge Mas Canosa as the USA's Cuban dictator on USA soil; Canosa, who emerged as a BILLIONAIRE himself, quickly engineered legal laws such as Radio-TV Marti in Miami that from the 1980's till today sucks tons of tax dollars from Washington-to-Miami to benefit well-connected Cuban Counter Revolutionaries {and, uh, yes, your Congressman knows all about that}; it is also Canosa's 1996 Helms-Burton Bill that to this day in June of 2019 is still designed to GREATLY ENRICH Cubans in Little Havana while GREATLY STARVING Cubans in Havana; and, of course, the 2017 anointment by President Trump of Little Havana extremist Marco Rubio as the USA's new Cuban dictator on USA soil replicates the Bush dynasty's anointment of Canosa as the USA's first Cuban dictator on U.S. soil.

      In June of 2019 Mario Diaz-Balart and Lincoln Diaz-Balart from Little Havana in Miami have more to do with setting America's Cuban policies than the rest of us 325 million Americans have combined. Mario and Lincoln are the rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary sons of Rafael Diaz-Balart who was a key Minister in the ousted Batista dictatorship who, beginning in January of 1959, quickly became one of the richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionaries in Little Havana, USA.

In other words, America:

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Starving Cubans: Will It Work?

Maybe, MAYBE Not!!
{UPDATED: Monday, June 17th, 2019}

     Florida's two contributions to the U. S. Senate -- Marco Rubio & Rick Scott -- should be very proud of the above photo, I sincerely believe. The photo is real, and it's topical. It shows an elderly Cuban woman on the left handing her last egg to an elderly Cuban woman in the apartment next to hers. In May of 2019 -- since Rubio, Scott, and their ilk have taken advantage of Little Havana's grip on the Trump administration -- the exacerbation of the Republican/Miami-led decades-old effort to starve Cubans on the island has reached a peak. The U. S. Embargo against Cuba was installed in 1962 for the purpose, according to de-classified U. S. documents, of creating starvation and misery on the island to induce the Cuban people to overthrow their Revolutionary government, which in January of 1959 had chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship back to U. S. soil, primarily Miami where the Little Havana neighborhood has served as the Batistiano-Mafiosi capital from 1959 till today. In 1996 Cubans led by billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart {whose father was a key Minister in the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba and then among the richest Counter Revolutionaries in Little Havana} rammed the infamous Helms-Burton Act through the U. S. Congress. Helms-Burton greatly strengthened the starvation-misery assault on Cubans in Cuba and greatly enriched and empowered Cubans in Little Havana. But, vividly remembering the brutality of the Batista-Mafia dictators from 1952 till 1959, neither the Bay of Pigs attack in 1961 nor the Embargo from 1962 till today, nor the Helms-Burton Act from 1996 till today, has induced Cubans in Cuba to overthrow their rebel government. In 1996 a Helms-Burton's Title 3 provision called for a total starvation of Cubans in Cuba, but it was/is so extremely cruel that not even the Batistiano-aligned two-term George W. Bush presidency would activate it. But in April-2019 fierce starvation advocates such as Rubio & Scott persuaded the Trump White House TO ACTIVATE TITLE 3 OF HELMS-BURTON!! Thus, in the last few weeks the photo above, I believe, would bring joy to the likes of Rubio & Scott. I'll explain:

             The lady on the left in the above photo is giving her last egg to her friend and next-door neighbor. Cubans on the island since 1959 are famed for taking care of each other, even if it means giving their last egg to a friend. This photo is a direct product of benefactors like Rubio & Scott persuading Trump to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton. The Cuban government has been forced to ration certain foods, including eggs that are so vital to the normal Cuban diet on the island. THEREFORE, if by chance you happen to be a decent person and a DEMOCRACY-LOVING AMERICAN, I urge you to study the photo above and then determine whether your compassion lies with these two elderly Cuban women or with the likes of Senator Rubio and Senator Scott.

     The photo above is courtesy of Florida political journalist George Bennett. It should, I believe, scare and alarm every Democracy-loving American and Cuban-American. WHY? Because, I believe, it shows the two U. S. Senators from Florida -- Marco Rubio and Rick Scott -- advocating self-serving political ploys strictly designed to typically enrich and empower themselves while preying on the backs and stomachs of both intimidated Americans and targeted Cubans on the island. Self-serving politicians like Miami native Rubio and Illinois native Scott taking gross advantage of aligning themselves 100% with Little Havana insults America far more than it insults Cuba.

    This photo is courtesy of the Orlando Weekly. It too, I believe, should scare and alarm every Democracy-loving American and Cuban-American. It shows Florida's two U. S. Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio huddling over some piece of legislation that most likely is designed to enrich and empower them but also, to appease their mentors in Little Havana, it well might be some written plan to starve Cubans on the island to pave the way for a return of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rule that fleeced, brutalized, and tormented the island from 1952 till 1959. If that conclusion sounds too harsh or a bit outrageous...it is NEITHER. I refer you to the photo below to illustrate my point.

      The photo above is, if truth be known, a far bigger blight on America and Democracy than any involvement in 2019 by the Trump administration concerning the leaders of Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea or any such issue. This despicable image shows four unconscionable political hypocrites seconds after they emerged from a White House meeting with President Trump in which they obviously convinced Trump their control of Miami would deliver him Florida's crucial bundle of electoral votes needed for his presidential re-election in 2020...if Trump would give these denizens total control of decisions such as starving Cubans in Cuba into submission. On the left above is Miami's U. S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart whose dad was a key Batista Minister before fleeing to Miami in 1959 and quickly becoming one of the all-time richest Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles in Miami. But the other three are every bit as viciously self-serving regarding innocent Cubans as the ultra-powerful Diaz-Balart family. Second from the left is Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis next to Florida's two unfortunate contributions to the United States Senate, Rubio and Scott. In the pantheon of Trump disgraces, degrades and insults to Democracy in 2019, this photo chronicles the absolute bottom of the pits. And that's because Democracy-loving Americans, I believe, can assume that these four hypocrites relish their roles in orchestrating the photo of these two elderly Cuban women who, as the photo below was snapped in Havana, were down to one single egg between them. So, I urge you to study the photo directly above of the four rich hypocrites standing so princely outside the White House and then study the photo below of two of their totally innocent victims in Havana.  Miscreants in a powerful nation preying on helpless people in a tiny nation verily epitomize what the word "despicable" means.

         "Hey, you people. STOP!!!!! "We are the nice Cubans in Little Havana who make the United States laws and rules regarding Cuba and we've decided to starve all the Cubans on the island for preventing us from recapturing our island that we haven't been able to rob and brutalize since 1959!!!!! STOP I SAY. Y'all can keep your other freedoms for now but WE are the only ones who have the freedom to decide what happens to Cuba. In case y'all haven't heard, our patsy...uh, friend...in the White House now has left all Cuban decisions up to us. DON'T TRY TO BE SMART OR BRAVE AS IF OBAMA IS STILL PRESIDENT. DO AS I SAY, or else!!!!!!"

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Cuba Chooses to Resist Trump

Starvation Is No OPTION!!

     Today -- Saturday, June 15, 2019 -- Cubita Now -- reports that Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel -- reemphasized his determination to resist the Trump administration's Little Havana-powered desire "to starve this island's children" as a means of softening up "we adults" for capitulation to a few Miami extremists. President Diaz-Canel said today, "Beginning in 2020 Cuba will decentralize its economy that already has about 40% private control. We will survive the latest Republican rule in Washington even as it scares off many other nations, including many American businesses, that desire trade with us."

      And so...as of Saturday, June 15th, 2019...the sovereign Cuban flag still waves in the warm Caribbean breezes.

      But Cuba is abundantly aware that another Republican administration in Washington is totally aligned with a handful of rich and powerful Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and in the U. S. Congress...meaning that the Little Havana stalwarks in Miami are determined to re-capture Cuba while Donald Trump remains President of the United States.

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Trump Starved More Cubans Today

Americans ACCEPT Cuban Genocide!!
{Saturday, June 15th, 2019}

     This photo of Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel shows him listening to Cubans reacting to his speech yesterday -- June 14, 2019 -- at the closing session of the National Association of Economists and Accountants {ANEC}. President Diaz-Canel, Cuba's former Education Minister, had used his speech to address what he considers the Trump administration's "concerted effort to starve our people, our children, even more than previous Republican rulers in the U. S. have done." He added, "Cuba will never renounce its ambition to be prosperous and sustainable regardless of imperialist America. We need the talent and contributions of our economists and accountants to keep a superpower from starving and depriving our children as a means to defeat us."

       The Seattle-based travel giant Expedia this week -- June 13, 2019 -- agreed to pay the Trump administration $325,406 because it assisted travel to Cuba that violated U.S. sanctions that are now designed by President Trump to completely strangle the Cuban economy to appease a handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists. These new actions provided further indication that only vicious extremists led by Marco Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers Mario and Lincoln, and Mauricio Claver-Carone are in total control in using the Trump presidency to recapture Cuba. Because of Cuba's uniqueness related to the USA's foreign policies, not even the intimidated mainstream left-wing U. S. media that is viciously anti-Trump is allowed to question the extremely greedy and revengeful motives of the small clan now dominating Trump's Cuban genocide. For example, it is not politically or socially correct...or healthy...to inform the American people that such Little Havana stalwarts in Miami as the Diaz-Balart brothers are the sons of Rafael Diaz-Balart who was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship until he fled the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 to become one of the richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionary zealots on U. S. soil.

    Because Counter Revolutionary Cubans based in Miami have virtually dictated the Cuban narrative in the U. S. since 1959, Americans are not supposed to comprehend historic photos like the one above...but it's a precursor to why the Trump administration in June of 2019 can starve Cubans on the island. This trio of fierce officials in the Batista dictatorship were attending a political rally in the southeastern town of Chivirico, Sierra Maestra, in 1958. In the middle is Rafael Diaz-Balart and he is flanked by Rodolfo Masferrer on the left and Rolando Masferrer on the right. Rafael was a key Batista Minister and the Masferrer brothers headed the famed and the feared Masferrer Tigers, the army unit that brutally assaulted any individuals or groups of Cubans even remotely suspected of opposing the Batista-Mafia dictatorship. {Please understand, when I post photos like this and describe them, if you question it I expect you to GOGGLE the authenticity of the photo and what I  said about it. So, by all means, Google "Rafael Diaz-Balart" and "The Masferrer Tigers"...because all three of these men are typical of the Batista rulers in Cuba who in 1959 fled to Miami and instantaneously became rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary forces. Rafael Diaz-Balart was born in Banes, Cuba, in 1926 -- the same year Fidel Castro was born close by. Fidel died at age 90 in Havana in 2016 and Rafael died in South Florida in 2005. But Rafael's sons to this day in Miami and in the U. S. Congress are fierce and unchecked anti-Castro zealots like their father}.

       The photo above shows Rafael Diaz-Balart flanked by his four sons at a point they were in the top echelon of Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami. On the left above is a rich banker and second from the right is a News Anchor at NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo. Second from the left is Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart and on the far-right is Mario Diaz-Balart. For the past two decades either Lincoln or Mario or both at the same time have represented Miami in the U. S. Congress as fierce Counter-Revolutionary Cuban-Americans. This photo, truth be known, reflects the fact that starting in 1959 money from the ousted Batista dictatorship in Cuba totally overwhelmed South Florida first and then, thanks to fierce connections to the Republican Party {especially the Bush dynasty}, such rich and powerful Cuban-Americans eventually overwhelmed Washington and particularly the U. S. Congress...resulting in fiercely lucrative and unstoppable laws such as the Embargo, the Torricelli Bill, the Helms-Burton Act, Radio-TV Marti, etc., etc. Yes, indeed!! Recapturing Cuba and punishing Cubans on the island has always been priorities of Batistiano-loving U. S. Cubans. But, as in Cuba back in the 1950s, money appears to be THE top priority.

     Expedia's forced capitulation to Trump's genocide against Cuba on June 13-2019 is meant to send dire warnings to all other companies in the U. S. and the world not to oppose the superpower USA's efforts to totally strangle Cuba's economy once and for all by stifling tourism to the island. The Trump administration on June 13th stupidly and grossly admitted that Expedia's sanction violations ended in 2014, back when the USA's president was the decent Barack Obama. Additionally, the Trump administration also stated that Expedia violated U. S. laws against Cuba that had been "in effect since 1963." That idiotic quote reminds the world that the U. S. genocidal actions against revolutionary Cuba have been "IN EFFECT" for six decades BUT still have not recaptured the pugnacious island for generations of Batistiano-exiles headquartered in Miami's Little Havana section. Of course, neither intelligence nor decency have ever been prerequisites for a handful of Little Havana exiles to totally dominate all Republican administrations since 1959. Today's Expedia capitulation is confirmation that the Republican Trump is merely a tool of Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers, Claver-Carone, etc., with most Cuban-Americans and most Americans being non-factors within the  bowels of the U. S. democracy when it comes to Cuba.

    A branch of the U. S. Treasury Department -- OFAC, the Office of Foreign Assets Control -- is busy leveling fines against companies believed to be aiding tourism to Cuba. This week on June 13-2019 I personally received a Treasury Department email detailing that very SUCCESSFUL fine against Expedia. But then that email continued with these words: "OFAC today separately announced a $222,705 settlement with Hotelbeds USA, Inc. Hotelbeds USA, incorporated in Florida, is a U. S. subsidiary of Hotelbeds Group, headquartered in Mallorca, Spain. Hotelbeds USA has agreed o pay $222,705 to settle its potential civil liability for assisting persons with unauthorized Cuba-related travel services. OFAC today also separately announced a $40,320 civil settlement with an individual and Cubasphere, Inc..." Such fines are paid by companies who desire to do future business related to the USA, which exerts enormous influence worldwide because it is the world's economic superpower. The U. S. economic embargo against little Cuba has existed since 1962 and somehow it has survived until at least June of 2019, something that PERHAPS very few much larger countries could have survived under such sanctions for six decades.

     Of course, sanctions and fines and a lot of other things against Cuba have been integral facets of the USA's financial, political, and military landscape for six decades and counting. That is not likely to cease or be restricted as long as a few Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and in the U. S. Congress or the Republican White Houses are unhappy about the revolutionary rule in Cuba. Meanwhile, as indicated above by the June 13-2019 proliferation of successful sanction-inspired fines, there are a lot of Cuban-American lawyers in Miami and in Washington who longed for President Trump to activate Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act. Title 3 had long been viewed as an absolute Gold Mine for Counter Revolutionary extremists IF they could get a Republican president to activate it. And, of course, President Trump on behalf of extremists in Little Havana {Miami} activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton.

    This photo taken by Jim Young for Reuters illustrates precisely why many believe the Trump administration's activation of Helms-Burton's Title 3 will finally starve Cuba into total collapse followed by a quick submission to Little Havana zealots. As indicated above, the U. S. Treasury Department's OFAC division is busy levying all those sanction-fines designed to totally strangle Cuba's economy while, of course, enriching and empowering already rich and powerful Cuban-American Counter Revolutionaries. At the podium pointing above is Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Standing silently with the pad and pencil is the EXTREMELY OMINOUS and threatening John Bolton, who is easily the most renowned war-monger in Washington's recent history. Dating back to the George W. Bush presidency, Bolton has famously and frantically advocated a regime-change in Cuba. Now as Trump's National Security Adviser, Bolton apparently has the clearance to put his dear BAY OF PIGS/BRIGADE 2506 friends in Miami back in charge of Cuba. In the photo above, Bolton's stoic but scary presence seems to be well understood by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

     President Obama in 2016 became the first U. S. President to visit Cuba since Herbert Hoover arrived on a warship in 1928.

     While in Cuba President Obama made it a salient point to tell the people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." When the brave and decent Obama, a Democrat, sincerely spoke those words, he did not anticipate that he would be succeeded by another Republican president, Trump, totally controlled by a mere handful of self-serving and greedy Cuban-Americans. The Obama-to-Trump transition, as personified by the island of Cuba, reflects a dire weakness of America's two-party political system within the basic fabrics and precious pillars of the world's Superpower Democracy. This week -- June 13, 2019 -- the Expedia headlines related to the Trump administration's genocide against innocent people on a vulnerable nearby island genuinely reflects why the U. S. support of the thieving and brutal Batista-Mafia dictators in Cuba back in the 1950s was WRONG and undemocratic and the USA's cowardly tolerance of the Trump genocide against innocent Cubans in June of 2019 is also WRONG and undemocratic.

     Since the 1950s the only U. S. President with both the guts and the decency to challenge Little Havana's dictation of America's Cuban policies has been President Obama.

      But with OBAMA now having been replaced as President by TRUMP, there is not a single person in the world, including the Miami denizens in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress, that can deny that the above image by Carlos LaTuff LaTuff is how decent people the world over view the USA's unstoppable genocide against the island of Cuba.

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